Sunday Morning Meme
Shamelessly taken from bandnerd88.
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
1)
A forty-five-minute-long low budget romantic comedy supervillian musical tragedy in the form of a video blog. [Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog - genetic_drift]
2)
A series about a really old man who spends his lifetime convincing young hot girls to join him inside a (flying, time traveling) phone box. He is routinely harassed by tin men, giant nazi pepperpots and one of his college buddies. [Doctor Who - bandnerd88]
3)
A pair of bitter war veterans, a prostitute, a mercenary with an ugly hat, a cute mechanic, a Hawaiian-shirt wearing pilot, a preacher with a Mysterious Past, a socially inept medical genius and the cutest little psychotic killing machine ever all get together on a ship. They Fight Do Crime! * Alternatively, a western...IN SPACE! [Firefly - genetic_drift]
4)
Mystery author butts into murder investigations much to annoyance of uptight police officer. UST ensues. [Castle - teamspyder]
5)
A gorgeous but socially clueless genius anthropologist solves murders involving really icky decomposition with a street-smart and equally gorgeous wisecracking FBI agent. UST ensues. They are helped by a socially retarded supergenius, a conspiracy-theorist slime expert, and a good-hearted, free-spirited artist. [Bones - forgotten_relic]
6)
Interplanetary explorers crack jokes about popular culture, ancient Earth religions are based off of alien snakes that take over your body or little grey men, and Atlantis is really a flying city in another galaxy.
* And then there were giant metal spiders, later powerful beings with a need to be worshipped.
* Or, a team travels through a simmering ring of water, to other planets, to kill gods.
* Mac Gyver and his old friend, an undead archaeologist, team up with a gorgeous astrophysicist and an alien warrior to kill snakes and spiders. Later, Mac retires and is replaced with the cast of Farscape, who help the team fight Morena Baccarin. [Stargate - randomdiversion]
7)
Vast armies fight over a piece of jewelry. [Lord of the Rings - bandnerd88]
8) A holy goddess decides to punish her creations for going to war too much by killing them all. The mercenary in the previous game teams up with a side character from the previous game, his girlfriend and the goddess's "Evil" counterpart to kill the holy goddess first.
9) In the prequel, one of the boys travels to the future to change the past.
10)
Centuries after the sequel to the prequel, but in a divergent time line than the games above, one of the boys sniffs around in the dirt, scares the hell out of innocent townspeople and hunts for bugs while developing a meaningful relationship with his shadow. [The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - bandnerd88]
11)
A schoolgirl avoids living in a tent by moving in with an incestuous family with intimacy issues. Not a porno. [Fruits Basket - bandnerd88]
12)
Teenage girl collects jewelry with her boyfriend, whose late dad is a real son of a bitch. [Inuyasha - bandnerd88]
13)
In A gun-toting pacifist and his genocidal brother emerge from a lightbulb. Humanity responds to being simultaneously saved and fucked by trying to kill the pacifist. [Trigun - forgotten_relic]
14) A Badass Longcoat and his Cute Shotaro Boy sidekick inherit a Mac Guffin Girl and a snarky spaceship from a dead client. Together, along with a lady samurai and a spazzy Cat Girl, they find God.
15)
A psychic high school track star helps in the fight against Isaac Newton's evil mecha army on a highly improbable moon made by Atlanteans. [Escaflowne - forgotten_relic]
16) A girl has to figure out how to get possessed by a bird.
17)
A girl decides that the perfect man for her is the guy who wants to kill her. Yaoi Fangirls flood mecha fansites. [Gundam Wing - forgotten_relic]
18)
Vampire Nazis decide to reenact World War II, and the Catholic Church decides to give the Crusades another go. Dracula objects sternly. Most of the cast are expies of hentai characters. [Hellsing - forgotten_relic]
19)
An extremely masculine boy/girl attracts loads and loads of fiances, girlfriends, and psycho stalkers. Of both genders. Completely against his/her will. Hilarity Ensues. [Ranma 1/2 - forgotten_relic]
20)
Four guys are sent west in a very small jeep by a hermaphroditic deity. Hilarity Ensues. [Saiyuki - randomdiversion]
Seriously, if you're ever bored, look up the "Better than it sounds" description for a laugh, even if you aren't intending on doing the meme.
IRL, my husband went fishing on Friday and is getting back sometime today. That left me to do the grocery shopping, cleaning and planting of flowers. Which was fine. Last night I hung out with sideshow_ericka and her housemate Krysti. We talked anime and cosplay (because even though I joined the Facebook group about how I like anime but I'm not a retard about it, I can act like a retard about it occasionally and not ALL THE FUCKING TIME) before settling down with the little bit and watching Sherlock Holmes. Which was played fantastically gay. X3
And now a bit more about the "I like anime but I'm not a retard about it."
I enjoy anime. I enjoy the artwork and the storytelling - and like the way characters are developed, or not. But quite a bit of me has grown up and so I don't act like a retarded weeaboo or wapanese all the time.
I enjoy it, and I'm passionate about my favorites, but I don't look at anime as the end all form of entertainment. I'm picky about what I watch (and what I read in manga form). This wasn't always true, but as I got older I found that I started watching my favorite series in a different way. (Example: travellyr and I had a long conversation a year ago about Gundam Wing and how intricate the plot was with all of the politics and human drama and ZOMG there's a message in here and the character development that didn't include "ZOMG BISHI.") While I might have been initially drawn to a series because "Oooh, shiny!" I have since moved on to enjoy them for their stories and the characters.
Last Exile comes to mind. I started watching it because I recognized a few of the voice actors. Then it was because it was shiny. And then I got so thoroughly engrossed in the plot I didn't care about the shiny. The story was EXCELLENT and I found that I appreciated it on a much deeper level.
When I re-watched all of Sailor Moon last summer, I found it was the same thing. Everything that I had taken for granted as an adolescent, I could appreciate as an adult. I could appreciate the intricacies of the storyline, the character development and interactions and so on. All of the shows that I have on DVD I find that I have a new found appreciation for because I've moved past the superficial.
That's why I like anime. Now, admittedly, I am a total dork-face about some things. I ♥ Tamaki from Ouran because he's such a dork. He makes me ridiculously happy. I do cosplay, but for me it's a form of creative expression. It's a challenge to see if I can make these costumes that I see in anime and video games because it's not like I can go to the store and buy a pattern for them. See? Sewing challenge!!
All in all, I enjoy anime. I like going to cons. But that doesn't mean that I'm a complete and total retard about it. Sure, I have fangirl moments, but for the most part those are private affairs, shared with friends only and not the rest of the freakin' world. Unless they're my friends here or on Facebook. (And in some cases, both.) And hell, even that random ass person who stumbles into journal for shits and giggles. Or because they knew me once upon a time and are checking up on me for God only knows why. But if you were to meet me at my place of work, I would pass as normal - or as normal as can be for being married to an engineer and working in an engineering firm.
And speaking of work - tomorrow may or may not be my last day. The person I've been filling in for is talking to her doctor tomorrow to see if she has permission to return to work. If so, she'll be back Tuesday, if no, I'll be filling in for the rest of the week at the very least, and maybe into next week as well. I'm being taken to lunch by a couple of coworkers to say thanks for filling in on such short notice tomorrow regardless of the outcome. Which leaves me to wonder, "Where do I want to go to eat?" I've been told that we can go anywhere I want...
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
1)
A forty-five-minute-long low budget romantic comedy supervillian musical tragedy in the form of a video blog. [Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog - genetic_drift]
2)
A series about a really old man who spends his lifetime convincing young hot girls to join him inside a (flying, time traveling) phone box. He is routinely harassed by tin men, giant nazi pepperpots and one of his college buddies. [Doctor Who - bandnerd88]
3)
A pair of bitter war veterans, a prostitute, a mercenary with an ugly hat, a cute mechanic, a Hawaiian-shirt wearing pilot, a preacher with a Mysterious Past, a socially inept medical genius and the cutest little psychotic killing machine ever all get together on a ship. They Fight Do Crime! * Alternatively, a western...IN SPACE! [Firefly - genetic_drift]
4)
Mystery author butts into murder investigations much to annoyance of uptight police officer. UST ensues. [Castle - teamspyder]
5)
A gorgeous but socially clueless genius anthropologist solves murders involving really icky decomposition with a street-smart and equally gorgeous wisecracking FBI agent. UST ensues. They are helped by a socially retarded supergenius, a conspiracy-theorist slime expert, and a good-hearted, free-spirited artist. [Bones - forgotten_relic]
6)
Interplanetary explorers crack jokes about popular culture, ancient Earth religions are based off of alien snakes that take over your body or little grey men, and Atlantis is really a flying city in another galaxy.
* And then there were giant metal spiders, later powerful beings with a need to be worshipped.
* Or, a team travels through a simmering ring of water, to other planets, to kill gods.
* Mac Gyver and his old friend, an undead archaeologist, team up with a gorgeous astrophysicist and an alien warrior to kill snakes and spiders. Later, Mac retires and is replaced with the cast of Farscape, who help the team fight Morena Baccarin. [Stargate - randomdiversion]
7)
Vast armies fight over a piece of jewelry. [Lord of the Rings - bandnerd88]
8) A holy goddess decides to punish her creations for going to war too much by killing them all. The mercenary in the previous game teams up with a side character from the previous game, his girlfriend and the goddess's "Evil" counterpart to kill the holy goddess first.
9) In the prequel, one of the boys travels to the future to change the past.
10)
Centuries after the sequel to the prequel, but in a divergent time line than the games above, one of the boys sniffs around in the dirt, scares the hell out of innocent townspeople and hunts for bugs while developing a meaningful relationship with his shadow. [The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - bandnerd88]
11)
A schoolgirl avoids living in a tent by moving in with an incestuous family with intimacy issues. Not a porno. [Fruits Basket - bandnerd88]
12)
Teenage girl collects jewelry with her boyfriend, whose late dad is a real son of a bitch. [Inuyasha - bandnerd88]
13)
In A gun-toting pacifist and his genocidal brother emerge from a lightbulb. Humanity responds to being simultaneously saved and fucked by trying to kill the pacifist. [Trigun - forgotten_relic]
14) A Badass Longcoat and his Cute Shotaro Boy sidekick inherit a Mac Guffin Girl and a snarky spaceship from a dead client. Together, along with a lady samurai and a spazzy Cat Girl, they find God.
15)
A psychic high school track star helps in the fight against Isaac Newton's evil mecha army on a highly improbable moon made by Atlanteans. [Escaflowne - forgotten_relic]
16) A girl has to figure out how to get possessed by a bird.
17)
A girl decides that the perfect man for her is the guy who wants to kill her. Yaoi Fangirls flood mecha fansites. [Gundam Wing - forgotten_relic]
18)
Vampire Nazis decide to reenact World War II, and the Catholic Church decides to give the Crusades another go. Dracula objects sternly. Most of the cast are expies of hentai characters. [Hellsing - forgotten_relic]
19)
An extremely masculine boy/girl attracts loads and loads of fiances, girlfriends, and psycho stalkers. Of both genders. Completely against his/her will. Hilarity Ensues. [Ranma 1/2 - forgotten_relic]
20)
Four guys are sent west in a very small jeep by a hermaphroditic deity. Hilarity Ensues. [Saiyuki - randomdiversion]
Seriously, if you're ever bored, look up the "Better than it sounds" description for a laugh, even if you aren't intending on doing the meme.
IRL, my husband went fishing on Friday and is getting back sometime today. That left me to do the grocery shopping, cleaning and planting of flowers. Which was fine. Last night I hung out with sideshow_ericka and her housemate Krysti. We talked anime and cosplay (because even though I joined the Facebook group about how I like anime but I'm not a retard about it, I can act like a retard about it occasionally and not ALL THE FUCKING TIME) before settling down with the little bit and watching Sherlock Holmes. Which was played fantastically gay. X3
And now a bit more about the "I like anime but I'm not a retard about it."
I enjoy anime. I enjoy the artwork and the storytelling - and like the way characters are developed, or not. But quite a bit of me has grown up and so I don't act like a retarded weeaboo or wapanese all the time.
I enjoy it, and I'm passionate about my favorites, but I don't look at anime as the end all form of entertainment. I'm picky about what I watch (and what I read in manga form). This wasn't always true, but as I got older I found that I started watching my favorite series in a different way. (Example: travellyr and I had a long conversation a year ago about Gundam Wing and how intricate the plot was with all of the politics and human drama and ZOMG there's a message in here and the character development that didn't include "ZOMG BISHI.") While I might have been initially drawn to a series because "Oooh, shiny!" I have since moved on to enjoy them for their stories and the characters.
Last Exile comes to mind. I started watching it because I recognized a few of the voice actors. Then it was because it was shiny. And then I got so thoroughly engrossed in the plot I didn't care about the shiny. The story was EXCELLENT and I found that I appreciated it on a much deeper level.
When I re-watched all of Sailor Moon last summer, I found it was the same thing. Everything that I had taken for granted as an adolescent, I could appreciate as an adult. I could appreciate the intricacies of the storyline, the character development and interactions and so on. All of the shows that I have on DVD I find that I have a new found appreciation for because I've moved past the superficial.
That's why I like anime. Now, admittedly, I am a total dork-face about some things. I ♥ Tamaki from Ouran because he's such a dork. He makes me ridiculously happy. I do cosplay, but for me it's a form of creative expression. It's a challenge to see if I can make these costumes that I see in anime and video games because it's not like I can go to the store and buy a pattern for them. See? Sewing challenge!!
All in all, I enjoy anime. I like going to cons. But that doesn't mean that I'm a complete and total retard about it. Sure, I have fangirl moments, but for the most part those are private affairs, shared with friends only and not the rest of the freakin' world. Unless they're my friends here or on Facebook. (And in some cases, both.) And hell, even that random ass person who stumbles into journal for shits and giggles. Or because they knew me once upon a time and are checking up on me for God only knows why. But if you were to meet me at my place of work, I would pass as normal - or as normal as can be for being married to an engineer and working in an engineering firm.
And speaking of work - tomorrow may or may not be my last day. The person I've been filling in for is talking to her doctor tomorrow to see if she has permission to return to work. If so, she'll be back Tuesday, if no, I'll be filling in for the rest of the week at the very least, and maybe into next week as well. I'm being taken to lunch by a couple of coworkers to say thanks for filling in on such short notice tomorrow regardless of the outcome. Which leaves me to wonder, "Where do I want to go to eat?" I've been told that we can go anywhere I want...